June 25, 2009
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On the Spot: Climate refugee will not flood rich nations (AlterNet)
Migrants uprooted by climate change in the poorest parts of the world are likely to only move locally, contrary to predictions that hundreds of millions will descend on rich countries, a study said on Wednesday.
The research from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a non-profit London-based think tank, challenges the common perception in the developed world that waves of refugees will try to move there permanently to escape the impact of global warming.
“It seems unlikely that the alarmist predictions of hundreds of millions of environmental refugees will translate into reality,” said the paper, presented at a conference on climate change and population organised by IIED and the United Nations.
Source: AlertNet.
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International Institute for Environment and Develoment – IIED
Written by: Angela
Filed Under: Ecology, Migration, Migration and Development
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